Millenials are snapping up vintage vinyl in WR
Posted Jan 10, 2017 12:50:45 PM.
Last Updated Jan 10, 2017 03:03:32 PM.
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Vinyl sales are back in a big way, and it’s Millenials buying those records, not just Baby Boomers remembering their high school days.
Jim Heaslip is a collector who sells his old school vinyl out of the St. Jacobs Market. He deals in rare records and collectibles.
He tells 570News that in the last five years it’s Millenials driving his business locally, along with some Baby Boomers rediscovering their turntable and that record sound.
Heaslip says if you are collecting, you want early pressings. He says they are always going to be worth more, and
those are the ones that are also getting harder to find.
He says younger music fans are not that interested in collecting country music on vinyl.
What’s hot? Heaslip says for young and older collectors it’s progressive rock. Think Pink Floyd and Rush.
His own collection? It’s big. He has about ten thousand albums, 6000 CD’s
and 7000 45’s.
And yes, that collection is insured for some big money, and it is stored in a specially-built room in his home, complete with temperature controls.
Right now, Heaslip is tracking down the 1973 album “Space Ritual” by UK rock band Hawkwind for a former KW couple now living in Ottawa.
He says they still come down to the market about six times a year to buy their vinyl.
